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You Know You're Pregnant/A Parent When...

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    Mrs. Spring    May 10, 2009   California

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    You know you're pregnant when... you cry for at least ten minutes because someone at work ate the last doughnut without offering it to you first (even though you've had 2 already that day)!

    You know you're a parent when... you find yourself saying "Wow, you're such a good pooper!" (I heard my husband tell Addie this over the baby monitor yesterday, lol.)

     
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    MissFlipFlops    February 25, 2009  

     Yup! Or when your 6th month old poops ALOT in his diaper then proceeds to play with it. (This happened to me like twice!)

     Someone yells mom in a store and you automatically look!

     You are sad when you kid goes up a diaper size because that means less diapers in the bag for more money.

     You can't manage to go through a whole day of work without having at least 5 mind blanks or totally forgetting something very important. But if anyone should ask you to sing the tune to Spongebob or the Backyardagins, you can sing that back to them like you wrote it!

    Oh I could go on and on!!!

     
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    Lozza    September 1, 2007  

    @Mrs. Spring: Oh man, I feel you on the donuts!

    Last night I dreamt that I really wanted chocolate munchkins from Dunkin Donuts but everywhere I looked to get them, the lines were too long, and that really made me lose it... which led to me waking up at 5 AM in tears because I really wanted my donuts! I woke my husband up (told him "NO" when he offered me a feel-better hug), and demanded that he pass over his iphone so I could look up when the nearest Dunkin Donuts opened. When it didn't say on the website or their answering machine, I cried again. Husband re-possessed the iphone, found that they opened at 6, and went out and got me donuts. (I'm even skipping over a few other parts in which I did/said crazy things)

    I could never have imagined that way that being hungry would drive me to new depths of crazy while pregnant.

     
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    You know you're a parent when:

    -you find yourself tying your own shoes in double knots

    -you realize you are serving the person next to you at the table in a Chinese restaurant

    (actually happened to me- the lady asked if was going to cut her meat too!)

     
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    Cash000    December 2, 2011   Canada

    You know you're pregnant when you are peeing every 30 minutes, even if you haven't drinken anything in the last hour.

    You know you are a parent when you wake up 5 times in the middle of the night 5  to a screaming baby, but still manage to wake up in the monring feeling more blessed than any other time in your life prior to giving birth.

     
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    Cheeks11    April 8, 2011   Dallas, TX

    You know you're a parent when you hear a kid/baby crying and you stop in your tracks to listen to make sure its not yours. I've done this on many occassions even when I KNOW my kids aren't even with me. I also do this when they're in a different room from me at home and one of them starts crying. I can tell who it is and the level of their pain in mere seconds. Depending on the level I then tell them to either shake it off, come here or run to their aid. It's a gift :-)

    You know you're a parent when you can pick up poop, pee or vomit with your bare hands and not even dry heeve.

    You know you're a parent when at the end of a long day after you've had the worse day at work you could ever imagine, walk through the door and have it all melted away when you're kid comes up to you says hi mom, I missed you. Its like they can immediately sense my mood and turn it around in minutes. I love my babies.

     
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    Lillindy    September 2008   Bay Area, CA

    You wake up in the middle of the night STARVING and you just might have to get out of your warm bed to walk over to the cold kitchen to eat a sandwich!  LOL

     
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    camrie    September 5, 2010   Louisville

    You know you're pregnant when:

    You make a pit stop to Taco Bell on your way home because you HAVE to HAVE a chicken quesadilla because it's the only thing that sounds good to you, and then inhale it in your car before heading into the house to have dinner.

    You cry over the end of the movie Cool Runnings (the part where they carry their bobsled across the finishline)...seriously? WTF is wrong with me? :)

     
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    bhutton15    October 2, 2010   richmond, VA

    You know your a parent when you find yourself saying "he only tells me after he pooped" or "or please don't pee on the floor and by the way where's you pants?"

     
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    Cash000    December 2, 2011   Canada

    @camrie:

    lol cry at the ending of Cool Runnings! That is sooo funny! Nothing is wrong with you, its totally normal!

     
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    Mrs. Spring    May 10, 2009   California

    These are great!  

    You know you're pregnant when you have an emergency stash of food in the car in case, god forbid, you get stuck in traffic and it takes 15 minutes to get home instead of 10.

    Also, I'm 5 months post-partum, and I still cry super easy (Guilianna and Bill commercials, anyone?).  I think those hormones stick around for a while.  ;)

     
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    Lillindy    September 2008   Bay Area, CA

    @Mrs. Spring: You should see the glovebox in my car, lol! 

    And yes, Guiliana and Bill...I cry like a baby, I feel so bad for them!

     
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    mrbee    March 5, 2005   New York City, New York

    When you realize you haven't seen a movie in the theaters in over a year!

     
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    Mrs. Spring    May 10, 2009   California

    Good one, Mr. Bee!  Although we actually got a babysitter for the new Harry Potter premier.  Wink

     
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    When you check your blouse every two minutes to see if your nipples leaked.

    When other people have to point out to you the spitup on your shoulder.

    When you do laundry everyday and STILL end up having to wear dirty jeans to work.

     
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     when

    -- you cry at life insurance commercials

    -- you think vaginal discharge is an acceptable topic of conversation

     
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    Derbybride    December 5, 2009   Louisville KY

    You know you're pregnant when you can't keep emotions inside, such as going psycho crazy on a complete stranger in Taco Bell because she burped really loud and thought it was funny but you were really grossed out about it. Or you finally tell the guy at work that you have always thought was mean, that he is an angry little man and will never be happy. I learned during pregnancy that self censorship can be a good thing.

    You know you're a parent when you would much rather hit the sales at Baby Gap than buy something for yourself. When you let your living room be taken over by the bouncy seat, the swing, and the exersaucer and don't think twice about it.

    And yeah...I cried at Toy Story 3. Seriously?!?! 

     
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    xshellx2003    April 30, 2011   Ohio

    What's going on with Guiliana and Bill?

     
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    Mrs. DG    July 18, 2009   Seattle/Tahoe

    When you come back from pumping at work and want to brag to someone about how many ounces you got.  I haven't done it, not even once... but man have I wanted to on a particularly good day :)

     
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    Lillindy    September 2008   Bay Area, CA

    @xshellx2003: They got pregnant, then lost the baby. :(  They've been struggling, though, and have done a variety of procedures to get pregnant.

     
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    xshellx2003    April 30, 2011   Ohio

    Aww I didn't know that. Not having cable kinda blocks you from the rest of the world. I'm surprised they put that out there for the world to see though.

     
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    missfireslayer    September 24, 2010   Northern Colorado

    You know you just had a baby when you set a cherry coke SPECIAL from the taco bell 15 minutes away, cause they have the BEST cherry coke in town, and shut the door and it falls into the street and you cry.

    You know you are a parent when you get a gift card to Old Navy or Gap for yourself and end up buying like ONE thing for yourself and a whole bag of things for your kiddo.

     

    @Cheeks11:SO TRUE. I can read my daughter's cry like a book haha :)

     
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    Mrs. DG    July 18, 2009   Seattle/Tahoe

    Or:  you know you are a mom when you can carry the baby in a car seat, a diaper bag, a bag of groceries and your keys to unlock the door all at once!

     
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    MrsH1010       Chicago, IL

    you know you're pregnant when

    • you eat food like you're making love to it
    • you say the word "nipple" more times in a day than you have in life
    • hitting the jackpot means finding onesies and socks on clearance at target
    • your hands spend more time on your tummy than any other place on your body
    • you get more excited than normal to put your sweats on at the end of the day
    • a smell can make you really nauseous or really hungry
    • you can personally relate to a waterbed
     
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    Cash000    December 2, 2011   Canada

    @Mrs. DG: I love that carrying the car seat, groceries and diaper bag all at once. You wuoldn't believe the things I can carry while toting my baby all at once. Its amazing. I amaze myself,haha!

     
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    Mrs. DG    July 18, 2009   Seattle/Tahoe

    @Cash000:  It's like pregnancy grew us extra appendages!

     
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    Cash000    December 2, 2011   Canada

    haha yes! Or it was the extra 50 lbs I carried around while pregnant, that got me ready for carrying all the extra weight!

     
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    Bostonsmom    October 9, 2011   canada

    I am a MAJOR shopaholic, and I can go to the mall and shop for HOURS and when I get home with all my purchases, my fiance has to point out that I didn't buy a single thing for myself because I was so busy shopping for the kids that I didn't even notice!

    you know you're a breastfeeding mom when ANOTHER baby cries and your milk comes in at warp speed! I was getting my hair done 1month pp, and there was a mother in the salon getting her 3month old daughter's ears pierced. that poor lil girl cried and cried and cried. Well good thing I had the cape around my shoulders, I swear my shirt was soaked to the point of dripping on the floor.

     
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    LpCutiPie    July 3, 2010   Central Florida

    You know you're pregnant when you can't get through a grocery shopping trip without running to throw up once or twice...

     
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    bride21    February 19, 2011   Springfield, MO

    If you drop your food on your hoodie and you cry because you can't wear it to work the next day. (This happened right after we found out I was pregnant. lol)

     

     
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    bride21    February 19, 2011   Springfield, MO

    You know you are pregnant when you steal a car to go get ice cream at 3 in the morning because there is none in the house! (My FI had friends over and didn't want to get out and I didn't have a license but I still took the car for a little ride. lol)

     
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    northernazbride    August 1, 2009   Arizona

    You know you're a mom when... you realize there is no half & half in the fridge and seriously consider putting breastmilk in your morning coffee.

     

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